Baird came up with a mechanical scanning system that bore little resemblance to what we now think of as television.
Farnsworth's invention was fully electronic television, built atop Braun's work.
Vladimir Zworykin invented an electronic television system at about the same time, but it only became practical after Farnsworth's ideas were incorporated.
Microsoft knows they've got the proverbial egg on their face because security holes keep popping up as fast as ever, despite their big "security initiative"
Lots of these security holes are popping up because of that security initiative. They look for bugs, find 'em, and send out fixes. To nobody's surprise, there are lots and lots of bugs that need fixing.
icon-based programming language: I think they might be trying and failing to describe the Smalltalk environment. The Smalltalk language certainly owed a lot to Simula.
MS-DOS reference: can't help but think someone was trying to add accuracy and something got lost in the translation (Mac OS and Windows owed lots to the PARC work involving Smalltalk, and Windows began life as a DOS shell, and, well, chop a few words until the meaning gets lost...)
Internet reference: again, looks like an indirect Smalltalk heritage deal, in that the browsers that popularized the medium owed a lot to those GUIs that owed a lot to Smalltalk that owed a lot to Simula....
Well, it appears that Sony aren't very enthusiastic about their own format, as their own VAIO desktops ship with the Pioneer drive described in this article.
Isn't he average network bandwidth for a user at home in India like 28.8kbps??
Who knows? Recent estimates I've seen of the number of PCs in India range between about 2 and 5 million, so the total amount of bandwidth is going to be somewhat limited anyway. If those numbers are right, and taking into account the rather large IT industry there, there aren't a lot of machines in private hands. The costs to serve such a sparse user base would be seriously hefty.
"a need to keep the pickup close to the CD is close enough of an explanation. Basically, the closer you are to the surface, the less critical it is you get the angles just right to capture the reflections. It's one thing to get this worked out on a single unit, but it gets messy once you start worrying about mass production.
Yeah, that would sure achieve independence from Microsoft, just use a Windows clone to run MS Office!
*sigh*
Clearly, China's goal is to have an independent source for the applications, not just the environment. You don't need to go to the trouble of mimicking Microsoft's tortuous APIs in that case.
Completely OT, but there used to be SCSI ethernet adapters you could get, and IP over Localtalk too.
The Macs did get hit with the ping o' death attacks years ago, but under the classic OS there really wasn't much for a remote attacker to expoit. There are some good things to say about having an OS that doesn't do anything...
Of course they made red staplers in the past, the metal ones I've seen were more a brick red rather than the brigher shade, though. And of course, the little plastic Tot 50 staplers (no relation to the current Tot 50) were usually red as well.
My laptop, desktop and PDA all run some flavor of Windows, but much of my Stuff lives on stationary boxes running BSD. Now that putty can traverse corporate proxies, this is a very comfy arrangement.
The guy is Danny Cohen, who gave us the terms big-endian and little-endian for computer architectures, and also started Myrinet. Imagine a Beowulf clu*SLAP* Ouch!
In a fan? Seems kind of silly, but the metal isn't as expensive or exotic as it once was, so why not?
FWIW, Ball bearings do get scored and deformed, and they sieze up and all the little balls fall out in the most inconvenient places, but you're going to see that more in an application where there are heavy radial loads. Around computers, not much more than certain printers are likely to experience that kind of problem.
The existing copyright laws don't necessarily need to undergo changes for them to become irrelevant. As everyone here should know, it's quite possible to release copyrighted works with extremely permissive licenses. Economic, rather than legislative, pressures are what may change things. If the traditional music business eventually finds that it cannot sustain itself, then it will need to either adapt itself to use a new business model or go away.
You do get different flavors of distorion from different amp circuits, and that's why some guitar players like to play with various flavors of tube amps. More toys, y'know?
Funny thing is, while that guitarist is looking for mud and fuzz (that stuff the marketroids call warmth) out of those tube circuits, the golden ears think they're getting some sort of elusive added clarity (at the same time they are admitting that the old hum and what they like to call "microphoning" are present). Bizarre.
Recently I was fixing up an old PA for a nonprofit, an ancient Western Electric amp, using what once were fairly generic 300B tubes. In the 1980s I could pick these up for $15 or so. Current price for the Westrex part? EIGHT HUNDRED FUCKING DOLLARS A PAIR. Even the clones out of Russia are a couple hundred a pop. We're not even talking about anything exotic, this tube is about as simple as they get.
Oh, and it gets better. These people are gearing up to build essentially the same ancient PAs (in hideous new chrome cases) for EIGHT THOUSAND FUCKING DOLLARS.
Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick, I'm in the wrong business.
The diagonal measurement is used because once upon a time, CRT faces were round instead of rectangular (like traditional radar). TV didn't use those edges, so over time they were lopped off.
Gnus is capable of storing mail in the same format used by C News (numbered files in each folder with an.overview, and an active to rule them all). It works well enough, but Gnus is too damned slow overall to take real advantage of it.
One problem with using a real news server to store mail is in the message IDs. This needs to be a unique key. No problem for news where message IDs are required to be unique, but a big problem for mail where this is not so. (Also consider a mail message sent to two recipients on the same server, or one that you receive twice, say through two lists. Sorting that out will be a pain using conventional news servers.)
It's not a client issue but a protocol issue. NNTP doesn't have a good mechanism for indicating the size of a message (there's a size field in XOVER, but that's not useful for POST, IHAVE or TAKETHIS) and no way to transfer a range within an article. That lack of robustness is a primary motivator for splitting large messages into series of separate articles.
The typical (default) article size for INN is 1MB, not 100KB, and that really only exists because of an implementation decision made over a decade ago based on typical OS limitations of the time.
Quite a few server operators misuse that article size limit as a way to cut down on binary traffic stored locally, but this tends to backfire and encourage posters to split their binaries into ever smaller chunks. It's the wrong tool for the job.
There is certainly no need for a new or revised protocol implementation, especially one designed with binary traffic in mind, to preserve the historic limitations.
A decent upgrade to news would eliminate the multipart posting siliness. You can resume FTP and HTTP transfers, why not make news be able to do the same?
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Baird came up with a mechanical scanning system that bore little resemblance to what we now think of as television. Farnsworth's invention was fully electronic television, built atop Braun's work. Vladimir Zworykin invented an electronic television system at about the same time, but it only became practical after Farnsworth's ideas were incorporated.
Yep, that's exactly it. The name came about around the time when POSIX, CORBA and DCE support were added.
icon-based programming language: I think they might be trying and failing to describe the Smalltalk environment. The Smalltalk language certainly owed a lot to Simula.
MS-DOS reference: can't help but think someone was trying to add accuracy and something got lost in the translation (Mac OS and Windows owed lots to the PARC work involving Smalltalk, and Windows began life as a DOS shell, and, well, chop a few words until the meaning gets lost...)
Internet reference: again, looks like an indirect Smalltalk heritage deal, in that the browsers that popularized the medium owed a lot to those GUIs that owed a lot to Smalltalk that owed a lot to Simula....
Isn't that two words?
Well, it appears that Sony aren't very enthusiastic about their own format, as their own VAIO desktops ship with the Pioneer drive described in this article.
Oh joy, so now Poopy the animated colonoscope can pop up on the scren to say "it looks like you're having a heart attack!"
"a need to keep the pickup close to the CD is close enough of an explanation. Basically, the closer you are to the surface, the less critical it is you get the angles just right to capture the reflections. It's one thing to get this worked out on a single unit, but it gets messy once you start worrying about mass production.
Yeah, that would sure achieve independence from Microsoft, just use a Windows clone to run MS Office!
*sigh*
Clearly, China's goal is to have an independent source for the applications, not just the environment. You don't need to go to the trouble of mimicking Microsoft's tortuous APIs in that case.
Completely OT, but there used to be SCSI ethernet adapters you could get, and IP over Localtalk too.
The Macs did get hit with the ping o' death attacks years ago, but under the classic OS there really wasn't much for a remote attacker to expoit. There are some good things to say about having an OS that doesn't do anything...
Of course they made red staplers in the past, the metal ones I've seen were more a brick red rather than the brigher shade, though. And of course, the little plastic Tot 50 staplers (no relation to the current Tot 50) were usually red as well.
Remember that initially, what became NT was to be named OS/2 3.0
I AGREE WITH THIS PSOT!!!1!
My laptop, desktop and PDA all run some flavor of Windows, but much of my Stuff lives on stationary boxes running BSD. Now that putty can traverse corporate proxies, this is a very comfy arrangement.
The guy is Danny Cohen, who gave us the terms big-endian and little-endian for computer architectures, and also started Myrinet. Imagine a Beowulf clu*SLAP* Ouch!
FWIW, Ball bearings do get scored and deformed, and they sieze up and all the little balls fall out in the most inconvenient places, but you're going to see that more in an application where there are heavy radial loads. Around computers, not much more than certain printers are likely to experience that kind of problem.
Yes, the diesel generators on locomotives are specifically designed to produce electricity.
No, Queen and Bowie didn't sue.
The existing copyright laws don't necessarily need to undergo changes for them to become irrelevant. As everyone here should know, it's quite possible to release copyrighted works with extremely permissive licenses. Economic, rather than legislative, pressures are what may change things. If the traditional music business eventually finds that it cannot sustain itself, then it will need to either adapt itself to use a new business model or go away.
You do get different flavors of distorion from different amp circuits, and that's why some guitar players like to play with various flavors of tube amps. More toys, y'know?
Funny thing is, while that guitarist is looking for mud and fuzz (that stuff the marketroids call warmth) out of those tube circuits, the golden ears think they're getting some sort of elusive added clarity (at the same time they are admitting that the old hum and what they like to call "microphoning" are present). Bizarre.
Recently I was fixing up an old PA for a nonprofit, an ancient Western Electric amp, using what once were fairly generic 300B tubes. In the 1980s I could pick these up for $15 or so. Current price for the Westrex part? EIGHT HUNDRED FUCKING DOLLARS A PAIR. Even the clones out of Russia are a couple hundred a pop. We're not even talking about anything exotic, this tube is about as simple as they get.
Oh, and it gets better. These people are gearing up to build essentially the same ancient PAs (in hideous new chrome cases) for EIGHT THOUSAND FUCKING DOLLARS.
Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick, I'm in the wrong business.
The diagonal measurement is used because once upon a time, CRT faces were round instead of rectangular (like traditional radar). TV didn't use those edges, so over time they were lopped off.
Gnus is capable of storing mail in the same format used by C News (numbered files in each folder with an .overview, and an active to rule them all). It works well enough, but Gnus is too damned slow overall to take real advantage of it.
One problem with using a real news server to store mail is in the message IDs. This needs to be a unique key. No problem for news where message IDs are required to be unique, but a big problem for mail where this is not so. (Also consider a mail message sent to two recipients on the same server, or one that you receive twice, say through two lists. Sorting that out will be a pain using conventional news servers.)
It's not a client issue but a protocol issue. NNTP doesn't have a good mechanism for indicating the size of a message (there's a size field in XOVER, but that's not useful for POST, IHAVE or TAKETHIS) and no way to transfer a range within an article. That lack of robustness is a primary motivator for splitting large messages into series of separate articles.
The typical (default) article size for INN is 1MB, not 100KB, and that really only exists because of an implementation decision made over a decade ago based on typical OS limitations of the time.
Quite a few server operators misuse that article size limit as a way to cut down on binary traffic stored locally, but this tends to backfire and encourage posters to split their binaries into ever smaller chunks. It's the wrong tool for the job.
There is certainly no need for a new or revised protocol implementation, especially one designed with binary traffic in mind, to preserve the historic limitations.
A decent upgrade to news would eliminate the multipart posting siliness. You can resume FTP and HTTP transfers, why not make news be able to do the same?
Well not entirely getting away, but otherwise I Agree With This Post[tm].